Hugh W. Sloan Jr.

Hugh W. Sloan Jr. (1 November 1940-) was the treasurer of President Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign committee, CREEP. He was one of the few honest Republican Party members who the journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein visited, and he helped them with investigating the Watergate scandal.

Biography
Hugh W. Sloan Jr. was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1940, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1963; from 1963 to 1965, he served in the US Navy. In 1965, he worked as a fundraiser for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, then for the National Finance Committee until 1968. Sloan served as a White House aide during Richard Nixon's presidency, and he served as the treasurer of CREEP, his 1972 re-election committee. He helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with their investigation of the Watergate scandal, having resigned when he found out what the "White House Plumbers" were up to. He subsequently became a trustee of Princeton University and became a private sector businessman.